Vauffelin
Sign in to saveVauffelin () is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Vauffelin and Plagne merged into the new municipality of Sauge.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Vauffelin
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Frinvillier Dorfstrasse.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Frinvillier village main street
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Vauffelin COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Vauffelin Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Bern
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-BE
- Swiss town.district
- Jura bernois
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2537
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 0447
- Swiss town.area
- 5.92
- Swiss town.elevation
- 707
- Swiss town.population
- 427
- Swiss town.populationof
- Dec 2011
- Swiss town.website
- www.vauffelin.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Orvin, Péry, Plagne, Romont, Pieterlen, Biel/Bienne
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Vauffelin () is a former municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois). On 1 January 2014 the former municipalities of Vauffelin and Plagne merged into the new municipality of Sauge.
==History== thumb|left|Ruins of a Roman watchtower at Rondchâtel Vauffelin and its parish is first mentioned in the Lausanne Chartular of 1228 as Vualfelim. It was formerly known by its German names Füglistal or Füglisthal though this name is no longer used. The village of Frinvillier was first mentioned in 1393 as Frunwelier.